"wff_ng_7" > wrote

> "Nancy Young" > wrote:
>> "Karen" > wrote
>>
>>> Saw a Lecrueset "French Oven" at Costco. It looks like a Dutch oven.
>>> What is the difference between a French oven and a Dutch oven?
>>>
>>> Is it a different size or quality? Is it Frenchified somehow?
>>
>> (laugh) That's funny. I think French ovens are oval, rather than
>> round.
>
> It is funny, but it's simpler than that, I think. It's a French oven
> because it's made in France. You wouldn't think a French company would all
> it a Dutch oven, would you? ;-) It's a nationalism thing.

> Actually, I don't believe they use either term in France. There's another
> (French) word for them over there. "Dutch oven" is a generic cooking term
> that's been around forever. I think "French oven" is an invention of the
> marketeers.
>
> On Le Creuset's USA web site, they use the terms "round oven" and "oval
> oven" to describe the two shapes.

Yeah, I wasn't talking about French ovens in the broad sense,
just the pot she is talking about from Le Creuset. Heh.
I'm pretty sure they call their oval 'dutch oven' type pots
French pots.

nancy